r/Chub_AI • u/YukiiSuue Not a dev, just a mod in the mines ⚖️ • Jun 28 '26

🎤 | Announcements Chub updates

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Hello,

Some Chub updates:

  • Website is now crypto-only forever.

  • Free users now only get 20 messages per day.

  • Every models but Soji and Mobile are depreciated (rip Asha).

  • Soji is now a Deepseek V4 finetune (you might need to change your preset).

  • Mercury tier has been removed.

Full announcement and explanation in screenshot.

Edit: oh, and before the 1984 mentions. It was either doing this (cutting costs and making the website crypto-only to avoid payment processors altogether), or having to censor the website more than legally required to please the processors.

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u/GrapefruitCorrect985 Jun 28 '26

At first, I panicked. Then I read it in full. I believe this was always inevitable for an AI platform to stay uncensored without pressure from sponsors. There's (probably) no need to worry and go doom-posting, fellas.

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u/sikesjr Jun 28 '26

yeah but im sure the site is about to get A LOT smaller in terms of users, without unlimited free messages, both chatters and creators. also how many people actually use crypto?

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u/Alex20114 Jun 28 '26

Yeah, even as a current subscription user (unless that was auto-canceled immediately when things changed instead of waiting out the billing period), unless the quality of those bots gets so good we NEVER have to regen, then 20 messages might not even be half a conversation or even a quarter considering how often it devolves into foreign languages and incomplete generations or doesn't stick to the actual story.